----- Original Message -----
From: "David Strike" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] DUI (was Re: DIR or not)


> On Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:08 PM, Lee Bell wrote:
>
> (snip)
>
> > > I've always
> > > considered tri-laminate suits to be far more generously cut than the
> > sleek,
> > > figure hugging and flattering ones that I was first used to!  :-)
>
> > Is this a joke that I'm not informed enough to get or have I got
> everything
> > backwards about what fits how?
>
> I don't know whether or not you've got everything backwards, but it's not
a
> joke.  The rubber stockinette 'frogmen' suits that we were issued were
worn
> for extended periods, (adding a 'P'-port was an essential!) and had to be
> sufficiently close fitting to allow for running - usually away from Royal
> Marines and Pongoes that we may have inadvertently insulted by saying
> something like, "Bootneck bastard, can't catch me!"   :-)

OK, there's obviously at least one version of a drysuit that I didn't even
know existed.  From the description, it sounds quite snug and, I presume,
warm.  Why isn't this preferable to the membrane suit, or is it?

Lee